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D-Index
41
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6609
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7702
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95

Igor Esau publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Igor Esau sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 150 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Igor Esau D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Igor Esau sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Igor Esau is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Oceanography.

Their research addresses key topics such as:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use

Igor Esau has published scientific articles in various venues with multiple publications in Urban Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and physics, and Boundary-Layer Meteorology, as well as contributions to Remote Sensing and Environmental Research Letters.

Recent papers include:

  • "Hyperlocal mapping of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Surface urban heat islands in 57 cities across different climates in northern Fennoscandia," 2020, Urban Climate
  • "A very high-resolution assessment and modelling of urban air quality," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "An enhanced integrated approach to knowledgeable high-resolution environmental quality assessment," 2021, Environmental Science & Policy
  • "The Arctic Amplification and Its Impact: A Synthesis through Satellite Observations," 2023, Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors of Igor Esau include:

  • Victoria Miles
  • Alexander Baklanov
  • Tobias Wolf
  • Lasse H. Pettersson
  • Pavel Konstantinov

Best Publications

  • An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer

    Robert J. Beare;Malcolm K. Macvean;Albert A.M. Holtslag;Joan Cuxart

  • THE ROLE OF THE BARENTS SEA IN THE ARCTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM

    Lars H. Smedsrud;Igor Esau;Randi B. Ingvaldsen;Tor Eldevik;Tor Eldevik

  • Diurnal asymmetry to the observed global warming

    Richard Davy;Igor Esau;Alexander Chernokulsky;Stephen Outten

  • A Hierarchy of Energy- and Flux-Budget (EFB) Turbulence Closure Models for Stably-Stratified Geophysical Flows

    S. S. Zilitinkevich;T. Elperin;N. Kleeorin;I. Rogachevskii

  • Turbulence energetics in stably stratified geophysical flows: Strong and weak mixing regimes

    S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;T. Elperin;N. Kleeorin;I. Rogachevskii

  • Hyperlocal mapping of urban air temperature using remote sensing and crowdsourced weather data

    Zander S. Venter;Oscar Brousse;Igor Esau;Fred Meier

  • A link between Arctic sea ice and recent cooling trends over Eurasia

    S. D. Outten;I. Esau

  • Resistance and heat-transfer laws for stable and neutral planetary boundary layers: Old theory advanced and re-evaluated

    Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Igor N. Esau

  • A Total Turbulent Energy Closure Model for Neutrally and Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layers

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Gunilla Svensson;Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Igor Esau

  • On integral measures of the neutral barotropic planetary boundary layer

    Sergej Zilitinkevich;Igor Esau

  • Further comments on the equilibrium height of neutral and stable planetary boundary layers

    Sergej Zilitinkevich;Sergej Zilitinkevich;Igor Esau;Alexander Baklanov

  • Similarity theory and calculation of turbulent fluxes at the surface for the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layer

    Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Sergej S. Zilitinkevich;Igor N. Esau

  • Trends in normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) associated with urban development in northern West Siberia

    Igor Esau;Victoria V. Miles;Richard Davy;Martin W. Miles

  • Review and assessment of latent and sensible heat flux accuracy over the global oceans

    A. Bentamy;J. F. Piollé;A. Grouazel;R. Danielson

  • Stably Stratified Flows: A Model with No Ri(cr)*

    V. M. Canuto;Y. Cheng;A. M. Howard;I. N. Esau

  • The influence of large convective eddies on the surface-layer turbulence

    S. S. Zilitinkevich;S. S. Zilitinkevich;J. C. R. Hunt;I. N. Esau;A. A. Grachev

  • Seasonal and Spatial Characteristics of Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) in Northern West Siberian Cities

    Victoria Miles;Igor Esau

  • Reassessing changes in diurnal temperature range: A new data set and characterization of data biases

    Peter Thorne;Peter Thorne;M.J. Menne;C.N. Williams Jr.;J.J. Rennie

  • Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX): towards a holistic understanding of the feedbacks and interactions in the land–atmosphere–ocean–society continuum in the northern Eurasian region

    Hanna K. Lappalainen;Hanna K. Lappalainen;Veli-Matti Kerminen;Tuukka Petäjä;Theo Kurten

  • Differences in the efficacy of climate forcings explained by variations in atmospheric boundary layer depth.

    Richard Davy;Igor Esau

  • Simulation of Ekman Boundary Layers by Large Eddy Model with Dynamic Mixed Subfilter Closure

    I. Esau

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergej Zilitinkevich
Sergej Zilitinkevich Finnish Meteorological Institute
Alexander Baklanov
Alexander Baklanov University of Copenhagen
Nathan Kleeorin
Nathan Kleeorin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Tov Elperin
Tov Elperin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Igor I. Mokhov
Igor I. Mokhov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Camille Li
Camille Li University of Bergen
Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Tuukka Petäjä
Tuukka Petäjä University of Helsinki
Timo Vihma
Timo Vihma Finnish Meteorological Institute

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